Power of COT Report and COT Proxy

You can see one of the powerful potentials of the Commitments of Traders (COT) report. It tells us the real story behind every movement. Now what about stocks? The COT report is only released for future contracts. For stocks there is no reporting system other than what the insiders (substantial shareholders, directors, managers) have to report to the exchange for the trades they make.

What if we can create some sort of a proxy COT Report for stocks? Yes we can!

But before I go through that, let us see some more COT charts for the other futures instruments.

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